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Leading Beyond Intention
Six Areas to Deepen Reflection and Planning in Your PLC at Work®
School improvement starts with leaders. Take a deep dive into personal leadership skills and gain practical strategies for building capacity among your staff, growing your efficacy, and leading with intentionality each and every day.
Benefits
- Understand what it means to lead from within and develop a personal plan of action.
- Explore the six core principles of leadership.
- Access useful templates and tools that support both reflection and action.
- Discover insights through reflection on your own personal journey as a leader.
- Gain strategies from other leaders in education for navigating both difficulties and successes.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Bravely Leading From Within
Chapter 2: Leading With Coaching
Chapter 3: Leading Through Conflict and Challenge
Chapter 4: Leading Change With Accountability
Chapter 5: Going the Extra Mile (and Looking After Yourself)
Chapter 6: Learning Always and From Everywhere
Afterword
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Chapter 1
- Figure 1.1: Reflection—Brave Leadership Interactions
- Figure 1.5: Reflection—Seeking Understanding
- Figure 1.6: Leader Reflection—Five Brave Actions
- Making an Impact in Six: Bravely Leading From Within
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.2: Using the Three Leadership Stances
- Figure 2.3: The Seven Questions
- Figure 2.4: Situational Questions
- Making an Impact in Six: Leading With Coaching
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.1: Guiding Questions for Reflection as You Lead Through Conflict and Challenge
- Figure 3.2: Reflection—Behaviors Before Belief
- Figure 3.3: Reflection—Adult Behaviors
- Figure 3.4: Steps in Critical Conversations
- Making an Impact in Six: Leading Through Conflict and Challenge
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.2: Identifying Skill-Building Actions to Support a Result-Focused Culture
- Figure 4.4: Practicing the Continuous Change Cycle for a Result-Focused Culture
- Figure 4.6: Reflection—Requirements for Change
- Figure 4.7: Four-Step Data Protocol
- Making an Impact in Six: Leading Change With Accountability
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.1: Reflection—Personal Commitment
- Figure 5.2: The TOTAL Picture
- Figure 5.3: Sample Daily Time Log
- Figure 5.4: Assessment Tool for Simplifying Focus and Actions in Daily Practice
- Figure 5.5: Self-Reflection to Avoid Unintentional Seeds of Doubt
- Figure 5.6: Strategies for Focus and Strength to Ward Off Intentional Seeds of Doubt
- Figure 5.7: Reflection—Next Steps for Work-Life Balance
- Making an Impact in Six: Going the Extra Mile (and Looking After Yourself)
Chapter 6
- Figure 6.1: Using the Three Ps to Grow Leadership Practices
- Figure 6.3: Personalizing the Level 5 Leadership Hierarchy for Growth and Reflection
- Figure 6.4: Reflection—Shared Leadership
- Making an Impact in Six: Learning Always and From Everywhere
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
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